Jiyun
E544100
Jiyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that systematically records and organizes the phonology and characters of Middle Chinese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jiyun canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690543 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jiyun Context triple: [Middle Chinese, primarySource, Jiyun]
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A.
Jung-Wien
Jung-Wien was a late 19th-century Viennese literary circle of young modernist writers and critics, including figures like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, that helped shape Austrian literature and culture.
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B.
Jin
Jin is a Chinese surname historically associated with the Jewish community of Kaifeng, reflecting their integration into Chinese society while preserving distinct communal identities.
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C.
Jin
Jin is the standard abbreviation used to refer to Shanxi Province in China.
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D.
Jang
Jang is one of the small islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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E.
Changyi
Changyi is a county-level coastal city in northeastern Shandong Province, China, known for its manufacturing industries and location on the Bohai Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jiyun Target entity description: Jiyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that systematically records and organizes the phonology and characters of Middle Chinese.
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A.
Jung-Wien
Jung-Wien was a late 19th-century Viennese literary circle of young modernist writers and critics, including figures like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, that helped shape Austrian literature and culture.
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B.
Jin
Jin is a Chinese surname historically associated with the Jewish community of Kaifeng, reflecting their integration into Chinese society while preserving distinct communal identities.
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C.
Jin
Jin is the standard abbreviation used to refer to Shanxi Province in China.
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D.
Jang
Jang is one of the small islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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E.
Changyi
Changyi is a county-level coastal city in northeastern Shandong Province, China, known for its manufacturing industries and location on the Bohai Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dictionary
ⓘ
Middle Chinese phonological work ⓘ rime dictionary ⓘ |
| basedOn | Guangyun ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese dictionaries
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Chinese phonology works ⓘ Song dynasty literature ⓘ |
| classificationSystem |
rime-based classification
ⓘ
tone-based classification ⓘ |
| compiledInYear |
1037
ⓘ
1039 ⓘ |
| compiledUnderEmperor | Emperor Renzong of Song ⓘ |
| compiler |
Ding Du
ⓘ
Yang Li ⓘ others (Song dynasty scholars) ⓘ |
| contains |
Chinese character entries
ⓘ
fanqie spellings ⓘ rime categories ⓘ tone divisions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| dynasty | Song dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Northern Song dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Song dynasty
|
| expands | Guangyun ⓘ |
| genre |
phonological dictionary
ⓘ
rime book ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important source for reconstruction of Middle Chinese
ⓘ
major expansion of earlier rime dictionaries ⓘ |
| influenced | later Chinese rime dictionaries ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| predecessorWork |
Guangyun
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Qieyun ⓘ |
| purpose |
to record Middle Chinese pronunciation
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to serve as an official reference dictionary ⓘ to standardize readings of Chinese characters ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Guangyun
ⓘ
Qieyun ⓘ Yunlüe ⓘ |
| structure |
entries grouped by tone
ⓘ
fanqie spelling used to indicate pronunciation ⓘ organized by rime categories ⓘ |
| subject |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
Chinese phonology ⓘ Middle Chinese rimes ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 11th century ⓘ |
| usedInField |
Chinese historical phonology
ⓘ
Chinese philology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| usedPronunciationNotation | fanqie ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Jiyun Description of subject: Jiyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that systematically records and organizes the phonology and characters of Middle Chinese.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.